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One of the reasons for this insistence is the decision of the state to rapidly withdraw from the social sector and to increasingly hand over the entire field of education to private operators.

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  1. The act of insisting; urgent or persistent maintenance of an opinion, principle, right, or the like; perseverance in pressing or supporting anything. He [Turgot] habitually corrected the headlong insistence of the revolutionary philosophers. J. Morley, Burke, p. 173.
  2. Persevering action; demonstrative persistence; pertinacity. What tones were those that caught our own, Filtered through light and distance, And tossed them gayly to and fro With such a sweet insistence? H. P. Spofford, Poems, p. 14.

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  • She'd be grateful for my insistence, and there were times when you couldn't buy gratitude. —  Archform: Beauty by L. E. Modessit Jr.
  • She insists, and the intensity of her insistence is a little scary. —  FSF,July2005
  • One of the reasons for this insistence is the decision of the state to rapidly withdraw from the social sector and to increasingly hand over the entire field of education to private operators. —  Kafila
  • But alas, I.T. was unwilling, and the feedback to my relentless insistence was a repeated and irritable muttering about not being able to guarantee that it would work.
  • This is because most new boxes come with Vista pre-installed on Microsoft's insistence, and XP is only offered as restore media. —  News
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  1. = French insistance = Spanish Portuguese insistencia = Italian insistenza, insistenzia; as insisten(t) + -ce.
 

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